RE: [cobalt-users] HELP! /var full and can't login...

[jale@xxxxxxxxxx]

> > I am a newbie with RAQ's and unix compared to most on the list,
> > so please be
> > gently on me :-)


> http://www.agilitysystems.com/raq/varfullsolution.html

Forget newbie, ALL documentation should be written that way!!!!!!!!! Unreal 
job Paul. I could have done the hardware side of that with my eyes closed, 
so I actually read it for accuracy (and interest in the detail).  There 
have been many issues with my RAQ (ask Joe at Hardynet :) that I completely 
understood in theory what I was to do but did not know where to *find it*, 
or exactly what was to be done once I saw what I wanted. Case in point ... 
my post about wanting an additional admin-type logon, the answer was to 
have another entry in the UID field of a particular file. I found the file 
... but which is the UID field? Paul's documentation would not have left 
that for me to guess.

I've been a programmer/tech-person/system designer for 22 years, that was 
one of the best pieces of documentation I have read; and the exact method 
we use to fix bad NT/2000 kernals - we had to upgrade an NT4 box from a 
single-CPU HAL (hardware abstraction layer) to a multi-CPU, we used the 
exact same type of setup to do it ... I could actually take (steal) your 
work and change a few lines and have a similar document for that NT4 job.

But Paul, I'm sorry to say, you did have a typo:
type rm analog.dna <enter>

I think you meant dns (I really did read the entire doc).

The other reason I read it ... I wanted to be familiar with what to do 
before I had the same problem, just in case.

My hat is off to Paul, I suggest even power users read/see the quality of 
his document.

Regards,
Jale, off for a Newcastle Brown Ale, it is Friday :)